Letter to the Editor Re Ballot Question B

After more than four years of deliberation by several regional committees, a steering committee and approval by the planning commission, the draft of a new Talbot County Comprehensive Plan is before the County Council for consideration. It is clearly expressed in this document that the people of Talbot County want shopping centers and big box retail kept within the incorporated towns, not sprawling across the countryside.

This view is in keeping with numerous polls, surveys, elections and a previous referendum in Talbot County. Voters should remember a previous referendum campaign effort in 2002 by Home Depot that flooded the county with expensive advertising in order to build a store where is wasn't wanted. The voters weren't fooled and Home Depot lost by a 29% margins.

Keep major retail within the incorporated towns. Vote YES ON B.

Tom Hughes